On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:17:37 -0500 (CDT), "Richard Lynch" wrote: > On Sun, October 8, 2006 12:51 am, Nisse Engström wrote: >> >> The <META> thing might be good for storing pages >> on disk, but on the web you should use real HTTP >> headers. > > Except IE will *ignore* your HTTP headers. > > You need real HTTP headers for real browsers, *and* the META tag for > IE, if you want your charset to be honored. > > IE will use some weird "guess" based on the bytes in the document to > choose a charset. It mostly guesses right, except when it doesn't. > > For some reason, MSIE thinks HTML designers and META tags are > absolutely believable, but headers are just silly things that are > never reliable. This applies to everything from Content-type to > charset.
I knew IE held some animosity towards the HTTP specification, but I didn't know it paid more respect to some bobs of META than the corresponding bits of HTTP. Or maybe I did know but have forgotten. No matter. Thanks for the information. By the bye, are we talking IE in general, or specific versions thereof? --nfe -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
